Originally Posted by
HTBH
At what point will they contact you and either put you in a sim or get a flight for you if you are about to lose landing currency? Do you have any say in the dates or a flight? Will you actually go non-current or will they try to get you in before you drop?
I go non-current on 1 Feb. Yes, I've tried to Yellow and Greenslip. And yes I filled out the 14 days of availability thing in icrew (down to 4 days left...)
Usually I get the Recency sim scheduled about 7 days before I am scheduled to run out of landing currency. You'll see a pop-up in Icrew and it will show on your schedule. Depending on your days off, fleet and reserve vs regular line holder, you might find out on Monday.
It's a bigger problem if you go non-current, both for you and the company. The company loses you as a pilot until you're current and when you go to the sim, it's more of a CQ event than just 3 takeoffs and landings (but not CQ, just one sim period). I have never run out of currency in ten years, because I've done probably 8 recency events to get landings. Some were only a few days before I ran out (because of scheduling) but it was always done.
You don't get much say in what day you'll do the sim, but you do schedule your own flights to and from the sim.